Running Composer-installed tasks in Phing

Question

I have a PHP app that is getting its dependencies installed with Composer. Composer puts the binaries in the bin folder. I want to use Phing to execute some tests on my code, but Phing isn't finding the apps installed in {basedir}/bin/.

For example, this works:

 <exec command="./bin/phpcs --standard=zend ." passthru="true"></exec>

But this fails:

 <phpcodesniffer standard="ZEND" />

The Phing error message basically says that phpcs is not installed. How do I tell Phing to run the binary from the bin directory when using the built-in task for phpcodesniffer (which has nicer outputs than the exec example above)?

Answer 1

I answered my own question. I just needed to add this right above the phpcodesniffer line above:

<exec command="export PATH=./bin:$PATH" />

Answer 2

In case anyone wonders, it's also possible to add Composer's autoload into Phing's autoload routine. With something like next line

<autoloader autoloaderpath="${project.basedir}/vendor/autoload.php"/>

This would allow Phing to "see" all the dependencies served with composer.

Answer 3

You could also use the includepath task to prepend (by default) a path to the include_path similar to export PATH=./bin:$PATH

<includepath classpath="./bin" />